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coprime_recs ([personal profile] coprime_recs) wrote2007-05-30 04:18 pm

Avatar The Last Airbender: The Long Game by Sophia Prester

The Long Game (Bumi, Iroh | PG | 1,613 words): King Bumi knows how to think outside the box. Bumi and his plans are complex and odd, but they make sense. Winning the war can't be all that's needed to stop the fighting, and Bumi planning for things thirty years before they occur is something I can believe.

Excerpt:
The mental counters moved, the board was rearranged, and the Fire Nation was defeated. The balance of the board shifted and for a while, all the colors were in balance. Bumi could even see room for the Air Nomads in there, assuming any had survived.

He looked at the board and frowned. Yes, the next moves would be very tricky, but he had laid his groundwork well, and laid it long ago. He turned to another place in his mental map, a place thirty years past, when the Fire Nation armies were poised on the edge of retreat outside the walls of Omashu.